Belt loop holder



Feb. 21, 1956 E. M. FRANKLIN BELT LOOP HOLDER Filed May 22, 1952 IN VENTOR,

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ATTORNEY Unitfid States. Patent BELT LOOP HOLDER Edna M. Franklin,Oklahoma City, Okla.

Application May 22, 1952, Serial No. 289,354

1 Claim. (Cl. 2-236) The present invention relates to means forattaching belt loops to garment, particularly to ladies dresses.

Belt loops now in common use on ladies dresses are usually formed out ofa string made up of chain-stitched thread. The ends of each string arebent into the side seam of a dress and are sewed in place as the seam isstitched together. This means that when it is desired to raise or lowerthe loops, 8. portion of each side seam must be ripped out to releasethe belt loop therein, and the seam must be resewed after the belt loopstring has been moved to its new proper place.

The principal object of the present invention is to provide a new andnovel means for attaching belt loop strings to the garment, thearrangement being such that the belt loop can be raised or loweredwithout ripping out any of the dress seams.

Another object is to produce a belt loop attaching means which may beoriginally installed upon a garment without ripping out any seamthereof.

A further object is to produce a belt loop fastener so designed that theloop may be removed with little trouble, and which can be removed andused on another garment if desired.

Yet another object is to produce an article which will be permanentlypositioned, and yet which will be substantially out of sight while inuse.

Still another object is to produce an article of this class which iscomparatively cheap to manufacture, and which may be installed withoutthe expert services of a dressmaker.

Other objects will be apparent from the following description when takenin conjunction with the accompanying single sheet of drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the belt loop holder showing in dottedlines a portion of a blouse on which it is installed;

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the belt loop holder showing one endfastened, and the other end unfastened;

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the belt loop, showing an anchoringsleeve covering each end thereof, one sleeve being shown in apenetrating or inserting position, and the other sleeve being shown inits anchoring position;

Figure 4 is a perspective view showing a slightly different embodimentof holder than that shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3; and

Figure 5 is a sectional view of a belt loop holder, showing the looplaced through the grommets therein, and showing one end of the stringknotted, and the anchoring sleeve on the other end of the string.

Like characters of reference designate like parts in those figures ofthe drawings in which they occur.

In the drawings:

The referenced numeral 1 indicates, as a whole, a sheet of cloth whichis folded longitudinally upon itself along a crease 2 to form two tabportions or flaps 3 and 4. The tab portion 3 is provided with two spacedmale portions 5 of a conventional glove-snap fastener, and the tab por-"ice tion 4 is provided with two similarly spaced female portions 6 of aconventional glove-snap fastener. In installing the sheet 1 upon a dressthe tab portion 3 is disposed flatly against the dress goods on theinner face thereof at a point where it is desired that a belt loop beattached for use along the outer surface of the dress goods, and may beif desired sewed thereto. This installed arrangement leaves the tabportion 4 free to swing outwardly away from the tab 3 and the dressgoods.

The referenced numeral 7 indicates, as a whole, a length of string orstring-like element for forming the belt loop of the garment. Each endof the string 7 is inserted within and attached to a tubular anchoringelement or fitting 8. Each anchoring element 8 has a point 9 whereby itcan be pushed through the garment material and through the tab portion 3of the sheet 1. As best shown in Fig. 3, the string 7 enters the tubateanchor 8 at a point intermediate the ends thereof. The remainder of thefitting has one side removed to provide a substantially hemitubate tailportion (Fig. 3). This arrangement allows for the element 8 to be bentat right angles to the string 7 and therefore prevent withdrawal of theanchored element.

In installing the belt loop string 7, the string is placed along theouter face of the garment material 11 and the points 9 and pressedthrough the garment material and through the tab 3 of the sheet 1. Afterthe anchoring element or sleeve 8 has been placed through the twothicknesses of material, the element is bent at right angles to thestring 7, and since the element 9 cannot be withdrawn through the tab 3of the garment material, the string is thereby anchored in place. Afterthis is done the tab 4 is attached to the tab 3 by engaging theglove-snap fastening elements 6 over the fastening elements 5.

In Figure 4 is shown a slightly different embodiment of the belt loopfastener mechanism. In this embodiment the sheet 1 has been cut into twopieces, A and B. The sheet piece A has two tab portions 3-a and 4-a, andthe sheet B has two tab portions 3-b and 4-b. These latter tab portionsare provided wtih conventional male and female glove-snap fastenerelements 5-a and 6-a and 5-b and 64: respectively.

As best seen in Fig. 5, the tab 3 may well be provided with two spacedgrommets, each numbered 10, through which the string 7 is passed in theinstallation. This figure further shows that by knotting one end of thestring 7, one of the anchoring sleeves 8 could be eliminated. Ob-

viously the folded sheet 1 may well be used as a belt loop holder byplacing it within a garment as described hereinabove, and inserting astring-like element through the garment and the tab 3 and tying knots inthe ends of the string-like element or tying the two ends together forholding the string-like belt loop forming element within the sheet 1.

Obviously the invention is susceptible to some change or alterationwithout defeating its practicability, and I therefore do not wish to beconfined to the preferred embodiment shown in the drawings and describedherein,

further than I am limited by the scope of the appended claim.

I claim:

In a means for anchoring a belt loop to a garmentforming fabric thecombination with a string-like element having each end, respectively,secured within a pointedended tubate body adapted for transverselypivoting with relation to said element, of: a pliant fabric folded uponitself forming two tab portions, whereby one of said tab portions may beflatly disposed on the inner surface of a garment-forming fabric,leaving the other tab portion free to swing toward and away from thefirst said tab portion; and means for fastening said two tab portionstogether, whereby said tubate ends of said string-like element may bethrust through said garment-forming fabric and said fastened tab portionin spaced-apart relation and disposed flatly thereagainst by pivotingsaid tubate ends and fastening said tab portions together, therebyforming a belt loop ,on the outer side of the garment-forming fabric,

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